Ireland's reliance on Corporation Tax receipts

We should also be using off peak wind power to produce hydrogen and store it instead of LNG which can be then used as back up energy when wind output is low.

But our joined up thinking is non existent in this country. Rather than becoming energy independent and being able to provide green energy at a stable price to companies who might invest here we instead will pay it in fines to Portugal or Spain to buy carbon credits for their solar energy.

It's a valid point, it can also be mixed with natural gas to pump to homes for heating or used for industry. There was talk about Germany looking at investing in Irish wind for creating hydrogen to power Germany etc…

You also have electric vehicles in Ireland, which if a proper vehicle to grid system comes about means a massive potential for storing off peak wind/thermal to consumers batteries to feed the grid during peak times. 73k electric vehicles, even just using 10kwh of their battery is 730mwh of daily storage. Be nice if consumers profited rather than big business!

I know there's a new policy from the government relating to micro generation and a guaranteed price for 5 years, it's a start.

Because we're a country that lives for the now. No one wants to hear about 5 or 10yr plans. Our government has no incentive to look beyond an election cycle as up to now we'd vote out the last crew if there wasn't enough giveaways in the budget. We've developed a political system that has zero ambition and it's why we've given up on indigenous industry and outsourced our future to multinationals.

It's all going to bite us very hard.

housing was built to zero standard I think 75% of all houses were were built after 1997. We now have housing been built many many KMs from the source of actual jobs so no planning at all really. Most working people with mortgages can’t afford a retro fit but are paying more for heating etc.

housing is being built where proper water treatment doesn’t exist. Perhaps the biggest indictment of our period of sustained economic growth is the failure to protect the rivers and lakes.
Going to be some setup when the chickens come home to roost.

Trump's pressure is paying off on pharma industry. Thankfully for us

4 years from turning the sod to manufacturing

We are a stroke pulling, seat of the pants country, we should have learned from the last crash but didn't because we never learn and never plan. In a few years we went from "the fundamentals are sound" and soft landings to a Troika bailout and ghost estates. A few years after that we were into another, different, boom. .

The average person has long forgotten 2008 unless they lost their home at the time which most didn't. We now have near full employment but crises in housing, health and other public services and increasing attention on our pathetic defence capabilities. The problems are spun as being a consequence of how great the economy is doing.

House prices higher than they've ever been which pleases many and there is plenty of property porn on RTE, Hugh Wallace, Dermot Bannon. People complaining about the cost of living while regularly eating out, going on several foreign holidays per year and buying new cars every 3 years on PCP.

When the risks associated with our dependence on multinationals are raised the response from the deflectors is they're embedded here, it would take them years to relocate operations. We've an educated workforce. We're the only English speaking country in the EU (which is BS by the way, relying on speaking English is another stroke that will bite us at some point)

But nevermind any of that - we'll convince the US administration to leave us alone because as per M. Martin in the White House "Ryanair buy planes from Boeing".

This is a bit OT but…

For instance, Denmark-based wind generator Ørsted canceled its Ocean Wind 1 and 2 projects in New Jersey, even after being awarded an additional $1 billion in tax credits that were supposed to be returned to that state’s electric ratepayers.

That doesn't strike me as an industry that generates revenue. It sounds more like one that needs state supports to survive.

You've just said we can replace corporate tax revenue with the revenue from offshore wind farms. If we have to directly subsidise private companies to build them, I don't understand how building offshore wind will replace corporate taxation revenue.

Trump name checks Ireland on pharma again. Only country he has called out by name.

How did I miss that, 😳 OK. But this post seems to be accurate now, why tell us these tariffs will be coming on April 2 and annouce today and not next week with all the other tariffs. Pointless and only trying to change focus.

Nuclear?

April 02nd will possibly be worst day for Ireland since GFC when Ireland was bailed out. OK maybe, but not sure we're there yet. Just a bit pessimistic.

Just as turkeys don't vote for Christmas: Any sane rational person doesn't cheer on someone who might act their countries economic / financial Interests. These self pro claimed Irish patriots who support trump. Anyone who is on twitter or observing the various protests outside migrant centres will know who they are. They have a very one dimensional outlook and short sighted in supporting trump.